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MARKET ORIENTATION, TV NEWS, AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF VIOLENCE

Written by GINO CANELLA and PATRICK FERRUCCI Posted June 18, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Chart of Standing Rock media frames

In 2017, we examined CNN and Democracy Now!’s coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to understand how the market orientation of two news organizations influenced the production and distribution of their protest coverage.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: analysis, CNN, criticism, Democracy Now, media, news, opinion, think piece, violence

MIT’S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER HAS HIS OWN CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted June 1, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

UT Chancellor William McRaven at LBJ Library CIA President's Daily Brief Release Event. LBJ Library photo by Gabriel Cristóver Pérez. Public Domain.

It was MIT’s Commencement Day Friday May 24, a bit of a surreal event for a campus that’s largely been evacuated due the COVID-19 pandemic. By all accounts, this virtual event was a tour de force, with technical gimmicks and congratulations sent from space. But it was also held in the shadow of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the ensuing protests.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: afghanistan, Black Lives Matter, civilian, commencement, George Floyd, military, MIT, opinion, Police, Rafael Reif, slider, violence, William McRaven

GUEST OPINION: GET US OFF THE TOP OF COUNTRY’S ASTHMA DEATH LIST

Written by TYLER RIVERA Posted May 25, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

State legislators have the opportunity to push through two environmental justice bills that emphasize citizens’ constitutional right to clean air and water and encourage stronger enforcement of existing state laws.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: guest opinion, news, news to us, opinion

IT’S RISKY TO REOPEN PLACES OF WORSHIP, WHETHER MASS ALLOWS IT OR NOT

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted May 18, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, Op-Ed

Massachusetts churches reopen

COVID-19 continues to pose an existential threat to public health and safety, and many of the churches that flouted social distancing guidelines became hot spots in their regions, increasing infection and death rates.

Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, news, news to us, opinion, slider

OPEN LETTER TO UMASS PRESIDENT MEEHAN FROM UNIVERSITY UNIONS

Written by UMASS UNIONS UNITED Posted May 13, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS

Photo by Joseph Ramsey

Demands job protections, engagement with students, staff, and faculty on reopening campuses

Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, jobs, labor, letter, Marty Meehan, Massachusetts, opinion, slider, UMass, union

WHAT LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBORS LOOKS LIKE IN THE AGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS

Written by REV. VERNON K. WALKER Posted May 8, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Rev. Vernon K. Walker

The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inequalities in American society regarding who has access to sustainable and equitable healthcare, which students have strong enough support system in their homes to have an optimum experience with remote learning, which workers have the flexibility to work from home, and which do not. 

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Christian, coronavirus, love, Massachusetts, opinion, Rev. Vernon K. Walker, slider

WITH COVID-19, WE’RE LOSING THE SAME POPULATION THE AIDS PANDEMIC TOOK

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted April 29, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

AIDS coronavirus

Clergy in these communities have been performing non-stop homegoings, and helping families, loved ones, and communities of the deceased through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, opinion, slider

GUEST OPINION: MASS SHOULD ELIMINATE CASH BAIL DURING THE PANDEMIC

Written by DAVID NATHANSON Posted April 16, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

bail coronavirus

The stakes are far too high to justify such detention. During the pandemic, incarceration puts a person’s life in serious danger.

Filed Under: COVID, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, news, opinion, slider

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON COVID-19

Written by HIROSHI MASHIMO, MD PHD Posted April 15, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Lessons to prepare, grieve, console, help, learn, teach, and unite

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Harvard Medical School, Health, Hiroshi Mashimo, HIV, influenza, mask, medicine, N95, Op-Ed, opinion, pandemic, science, slider, social distancing, VA Boston Healthcare System, wash your hands

SIGN “MIT HARVARD PETITION” DEMANDING BETTER SOLUTIONS FOR CAMBRIDGE HOMELESS DURING PANDEMIC

Written by QUINTON ZONDERVAN Posted April 13, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Collage of John Harvard Statue with a mask

Editor's note: The following petition was drafted by Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan and is reprinted here in the public interest. Read "Cambridge Plan to Warehouse Homeless Could Spark COVID Outbreak" by DigBoston's Jason Pramas for more background.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, coronavirus, COVID19, Democracy, Homeless, justice, Massachusetts, opinion, petition, slider

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